What's the first major news story you can remember living through as a child?

1. 9/11. I was in elementary school, it happened pretty early in the day... My teacher turned the TV on, a super small one in the corner of the room on the wall... And then later my mom picked us up from school. I don't really remember understanding what had happened, because I was way more focused on the fact that I got to go home early.
   — drekiaa


2. The Challenger explosion
   — djc6535


3. OJ Simpson I remember the Bronco chase.
   — brokendowndryer






4. Death of Princess Diana. I was in 3rd grade.
   — Last5years


5. The 72 Munich Olympics and the Israeli athletes being executed on TV. I remember hearing the terrorists being called guerillas, while we were also fighting the Viet Cong, naturally I thought they must be led by a supreme leader.........King Cong.
   — Guy_In_Florida


6. Elvis dying. I was 7 and came running into the house to see my mom crying. I asked her whats wrong and she told me Elvis died. I said "Oh." and ran back outside to play.
   — imcrowning






7. I was born in 1951. I can't at the moment remember which came first but I remember when president Eisenhower had a heart attack and vice-president Richard Nixon became acting president while Ike recovered and I also remember when Castro took over Cuba. Okay, I just googled it: Castro took Cuba in 1959, so I was 8. Eisenhower's heart attack was 1955, so I was 4.
   — requisitename


8. Baby Jessica rescued from a well in 1987. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McClure
   — cherokee__fade


9. Micheal Jackson dying.
   — wingsofdark






10. Bill Clinton's blowjob.
    — Baggabones88


11. The collapse of the Soviet Union.
    — chksum


12. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
    — etopian